Mid-January Updates

We’ve had a bustling start to 2015, and we’ll sum up some of the highlights here! Continue reading for the latest updates at VeganStart (including our first recipe posting, a revealing blog post on almonds and water consumption, plus our new logo), news items, other nifty online finds (and concerns), a little vegan humour and more. If you’re on social media, be sure to join us to get these updates in a more timely fashion! Check out the top of the menu on the right for all our accounts.

VeganStart Updates

Are you joining us for Fauxtella Friday? We’ve published our first recipe, a quick & easy vegan ‘nutella’ recipe, and at the VeganStart HQ we enjoy it every Friday morning, make it your tradition as well and tell us how you enjoy it in the comments section, or by using the hashtag #Fauxtella!

Don’t be alarmed by the change in appearance – it was New Logo Day last Friday, and we’re really excited to be working with a vegan designer for a much more professional look! Our website will be updated in the upcoming weeks as well – I can hardly wait!

If you’re on Twitter, consider joining us for one of the regular weekly vegan tweet-ups, our friends at Vegan Chat Room list them nicely! Follow these tweeps for more info, and we hope you join us for one: https://twitter.com/VeganChatRoom/status/554378398353854464(Apologies, this item isn’t displaying properly when we embed it, but here is a screen grab..oh, the mysteries of WordPress.)

Speaking of Crofter’s, this tip to for using up jam was a popular shot of ours on Instagram:

A photo posted by VeganStart.org (@veganstartorg) on Jan 21, 2015 at 10:46am PST

The Mystery of the Shrinking Soy Milk

Finally, over on Facebook we reported our discovery that the new ‘gable top’ cartons of So Nice (owned by Earth’s Own) have shrunk, from 1.89L to 1.75L. We called and were informed this was a “business decision” and that ‘organic is expensive’. This is an 8% reduction in volume, and the smaller packaging results in more waste – both in the garbage and for transportation…we really wish it were going in the direction of larger cartons! We haven’t seen this in any other cartons but worry that this might be a new trend. Let us know in the comments or send us a note if you see any other cartons this size.

For Your Amusement

Coming Up

We’ve still got lots of goodies in the works: tune in to our social media accounts, or if you’re not already on our email list, sign up there for updates every few weeks! (See menu on the right.)

Cheerio!

Thanks for all the support, interactions and kind words! We’re very excited to offer a new way for people to more easily transition to veganism, and your help getting the word out really aids in this!